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I talked to Howard yesterday. He'll be there a couple of days as well.
I will be bringing my new shaving brush with me.
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This is a better pic to show the abalone.
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Absolutely beautiful Randy.
I'm looking forward to seeing it and feeling its weight.
Pete <:-}
Randy, I think that that is a bit over the top for the give away raffle. It'll make the stuff that we bring look like cheap crap.
You should keep that and get something else for the raffle.
Saved some money flying into Dallas Lovefield if anyone needs a ride.
Are there some guys interested in doing a San mai demonstration? Particularly stainless jacket to carbon core? Is this even possible with a open air gas forge?
5 days. Only 24 hrs a day.
How can I fit this all in?
Less than 24 hrs because Charlie insists on closing down and sleeping at night!
Then they make me shut the grinder down so they can do a demo!!!!!!:rofl2:
Online with Zoe Crist, he mentioned that he heats in a nitrogen atmosphere and uses a press. He stated that the press was key as the steels dont take a set under a hammer. I have bought several stainless/1095 billets from him.
He really didnt want to share more as its one of his money makers and there are few others offering it.
I found a couple of different threads on BF and guys were completely mig welding the the 3 pieces of steel together to keep oxygen from getting into the forge weld. I found a couple guys who successfully set the welds with hand hammering. I’m thinking if we tried some razor sized billets we might be successful with one of them.
There was a couple of pictures of finished knives made from 4xx series ss and 1095, they were striking. Looked like a seriously active hamon. Gave me the bug.
I’ll order some 304 or similar and bring some 1095 and see if I can’t convince one of you to try it out with me.
I have never tried to weld stainless to carbon. Check those sources for what gas and wire they were using. I will bring my mig. Its set up for flux core (no gas) carbon steel wire right now, but thats a simple change. Can't hurt to try small billets.
At a hammer in last summer I was trying to forge weld the reins on a pair of tongs. This is a 'drop tongs' weld and is much harder than welding billets, but within my ability. After countless failures I'm thinking "Come on, I'm better than this!" It turned out that the 3/8" rod that I thought was cold roll was stainless.
Saw this Gyuto by Don Nguyen in person.
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It was stunning. The area above the signature is hammer/forge finished. Stainless forms a beautiful forge scale/patina. I'm pretty certain that he bought the san mai though.
I think that for our purposes regular 70S-2 with argon/CO2 will work OK. I also think that stick welding with 7018 would work OK. The metallurgy of this would be bad, and for structural or corrosion resistance 347 would be better, but all we would be trying to do is seal the billet and all of the weld affected area can be ground away.
I'll try a couple mig and stick welds with the above.
Another thought would be to weld up a mild steel can around the san mai. I think that the can approach has the best chance of working. The in plane can walls could be pretty heavy to even out the hammer blows.
As far as the internet is concerned there isn’t anything saying we couldn’t weld ss to high carbon steel, the strength and corrosion resistance would be compromised but who cares, just need to hold on long enough to set a weld and keep out that pesky O2.
Blue demon makes a gas less flux core for ss, but I think I’ll just try the fcaw I have in my little welder and see what happens before I spend $30 on a 1lb spool.
On another note, Charlie, how did the treadle hammer come out? Did you and Shaun finish that before he left last year?
Hey Bruno
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Looks like a well rounded breakfast to me.
What’s with the toast.
I am inclined to agree with you. As much fun as it is to operate a hammer, it is not something that should be done by inexperienced people with a load of other people standing around and a lot of chaos in the background. If things go wrong with a power hammer, bad things happen. It is your shop of course and you decide what does or does not go. But we made things work without a power hammer until now, and I think the safety aspect is key here.
EDIT: on the topic of the welds: when I built my press, I had the H frame welded together by a professional welder with professional gear, in his shop, on a proper welding table. I can melt things together for 'good enough' purposes but a frame that will repeatedly subjected to 20 ton stresses is not something where I'd want 'good enough, probably' welds. Same for a hammer. And it's one thing to operate a welded-together hammer when you are by yourself, and you know exactly what should and should not be happening. But with people around who will probably not recognize in time when things go wrong, it's a big risk. There will be enough volunteers for striking duty and any billet that is small enough for the things we make, can be done with a striker.
EDIT2: And that is not even considering that even with a perfectly solid air hammer, if you do things the wrong way it is trivial to crush body parts, ventilate your brain, send a billet flying or have the tongs catapult away.
tis true its the ankle gun, you know i would never carry anything less than .45
My 10 is actually a more potent caliber. And I like it cause it holds 2 more rounds
Plus who said I didn’t have my .45 and my 10?
Ya, my .357 sig is 1 step behind that 10. I may have to find another 1911 in 10mm. Its just got to have a round butt!
Even though I would like to experience a power hammer, this meet has grown so big that I agree with the decision of locking it down.
This is similar to our shooting sessions. We don't want a bunch of guns in play. This time we will have a Range Master for safety or I won't play. Howard shows interest in shooting, but sees the safety issue. I will volunteer as Range Master, but would gladly accept other nominations.
It's very similar in a way. Last time you handled each gun before me, told me what to do, and kept an eye on what I was doing.
Learning to use a power hammer should be approached in the same way.
I learned by myself and I won't lie: I had a couple of lucky escapes and it was good that noone was in the way of whatever went flying.
If you look at the way the shop is arranged, using that hammer -even with guidance from someone like Howard or Charlie or me- would be similar to you helping me shoot, but with a group of people huddled around the target to better see what is going on :D
Oh yeah, it has to have a round butt, that’s the only way to go.
:-)
Not that the pressure to attend isn't enough, but all this talk of danger and range safety makes me want to show up just to be available to put other peoples fingers in all the holes until the paramedics arrive.
Although having a safety person is nice, then there isn't anything to tell stories about that increase attendance next year.
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Paco, you didn’t enjoy the Twilite? Our room only almost burned down.....
Ya paco is cheap. He still has the second nickel he earned. Still mad about losing the first
On the inside of my dad's 'Cruise Book' from his time in the US Navy aboard the USS Valley Forge 45 was a $2.00 Silver Certificate Bill held in place with those lick and stick corner things.
Dad said it was about all that was left of his first Navy Pay when he got out of Boot Camp. He was very proud that he'd held onto all those years. He was Honorably Discharged in 1952--he passed in 1999.
After he passed I dug the cruise book out and some SOB had taken that bill!
I'm having some crawfish sent for the meet. I know not many eat them so only getting about 20#. Trying to have them sent Thursday the 20th.